On 25/09/14 01:03, Sage Weil wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Mark Kirkwood wrote: >> On 24/09/14 14:29, Aegeaner wrote: >>> I run ceph on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.4 Santiago, and when I >>> run "service ceph start" i got: >>> >>> # service ceph start >>> >>> ERROR:ceph-disk:Failed to activate >>> ceph-disk: Does not look like a Ceph OSD, or incompatible version: >>> /var/lib/ceph/tmp/mnt.I71N5T >>> mount: /dev/hioa1 already mounted or /var/lib/ceph/tmp/mnt.02sVHj busy >>> ceph-disk: Mounting filesystem failed: Command '['/bin/mount', '-t', >>> 'xfs', '-o', 'noatime', '--', >>> >> '/dev/disk/by-parttypeuuid/4fbd7e29-9d25-41b8-afd0-062c0ceff05d.6d726c93-41f9-453d-858e-ab4132b5c8fd', >>> '/var/lib/ceph/tmp/mnt.02sVHj']' returned non-zero exit status 32 >>> ceph-disk: Error: One or more partitions failed to activate >>> >>> Someone told me "service ceph start" still tries to call ceph-disk which >>> will create a filestore type OSD, and create a journal partition, is it >>> true? >>> >>> ls -l /dev/disk/by-parttypeuuid/ >>> >>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 11 9? 23 16:56 >>> >> 45b0969e-9b03-4f30-b4c6-b4b80ceff106.00dbee5e-fb68-47c4-aa58-924c904c4383 >>> -> ../../hioa2 >>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 9? 23 17:02 >>> >> 45b0969e-9b03-4f30-b4c6-b4b80ceff106.c30e5b97-b914-4eb8-8306-a9649e1c20ba >>> -> ../../sdb2 >>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 11 9? 23 16:56 >>> >> 4fbd7e29-9d25-41b8-afd0-062c0ceff05d.6d726c93-41f9-453d-858e-ab4132b5c8fd >>> -> ../../hioa1 >>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 9? 23 17:02 >>> >> 4fbd7e29-9d25-41b8-afd0-062c0ceff05d.b56ec699-e134-4b90-8f55-4952453e1b7e >>> -> ../../sdb1 >>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 11 9? 23 16:52 >>> >> 89c57f98-2fe5-4dc0-89c1-f3ad0ceff2be.6d726c93-41f9-453d-858e-ab4132b5c8fd >>> -> ../../hioa1 >>> >>> There seems to be two hioa1 partitions there, maybe remained from last >>> time I create the OSD using ceph-deploy osd prepare? >>> >> >> Crap - it is fighting you, yes - looks like the startup script has tried >> to build an osd for you using ceph-disk (which will make two partitions >> by default). So that's toasted the setup that your script did. >> >> Growl - that's made it more complicated for sure. > > Hrm, yeah. I think ceph-disk needs to have an option (via ceph.conf) that > will avoid creating a journal [partition], and we need to make sure that > the journal behavior is all conditional on the journal symlink being > present. Do you mind opening a bug for this? It could condition itself > off of the osd objectstore option (we'd need to teach ceph-diska bout the > varoius backends), or we could add a secondary option (awkware to > configure), or we could call into ceph-osd with something like 'ceph-osd > -i 0 --does-backend-need-journal' so that a call into the backend > code itself can control things. The latter is probably ideal. > > Opened http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/9580 and copying ceph-devel > Yeah, looks good - the approach to ask ceph-osd if it needs a journal seems sound. Regards Mark